It may not be officially open, but a £13 million health centre has already had two names.

The Charnwood Health and Social Care Centre was to be called the Arthur Wakerley Centre after the city architect and Lord Mayor, following a public vote to choose its new name.

Now, it is to be named the Merlyn Vaz Health and Social Care Centre after MP Keith Vaz's mother, a former city councillor.

Health bosses said they had made a mistake in announcing the results of the first public vote in its newsletter.

The PCT said the first competition – run last year and advertised on its website and through appeals in the media – did not count because so few people voted.

In the second public vote, 750 people – including a 500-name petition – voted for the Vaz name after a mailshot of the competition to 6,000 homes.

A spokesman for NHS Leicester City said: "We decided to give the patients and the public around the site of the health centre another opportunity to name the building after just a handful of votes were cast during the original exercise.

"Arthur Wakerley was prematurely announced as the chosen name before Christmas, but that was a human error and since then feedback for it to be named after Merlyn Vaz has been overwhelming."

Zanu-Labour should get these people to 'count' the votes on election day - They'd have no problem 'winning' every election they stand in then.

Absolutely they more than likely they decided that Arthur Wakerley was to White and Male to name the centre after him. And no doubt after some intervention by sonny boy they decided that the Paki would be a better choice. (

The question is, of the 6,000 mailshots sent out how many were sent in to WHITE areas or were they only sent into PJ wearers areas. This question must be answered the local BNP organiser needs to send an FOI request to find the answer.
Perhaps he/she could also produce a mailshot and deliver it to WHITE areas and see what result they get